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All things seen and unseen / RJ McDaniel.

by McDaniel, R. J.

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ECW Press, 2024.

Young women -- Fiction.

Chronically ill -- Fiction.

Suicidal behavior -- Fiction.

Housesitting -- Fiction.

Lesbians -- Fiction.

Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction.

Psychic trauma -- Fiction.

British Columbia -- Fiction.

9781770417090 (trade pbk.)

247 p. ; 22 cm.

An incisive reflection on identity and wealth, and a refreshing racial queer story of survival. All Things Seen and Unseen follows Alex Nguyen, an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and subsequent lengthy hospitalization, she finds herself without a job, kicked out of campus housing, unable to afford school, and still struggling in the aftermath of a relationship's dissolution. Hope comes in the form of a rich high school friend who offers Alex a job housesitting at her family's empty summer mansion on a gulf island. Surrounded by dense forest and ocean, in the increasingly oppressive heat of a 2010s summer, Alex must try to survive as an outsider in a remote, insular community; to navigate the awkward, unexpected beginnings of a possible new romance; and to live through the trauma she has repressed to survive, even as the memories -- and a series of increasingly unnerving events -- threaten to pull her back under the surface.

Canadian fiction.

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

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